ASP.NET Weekly - Issue #38

Tomasz shows how you can use the Forwarded Headers middleware in ASP.NET Core to handle situations where proxy services do not use the standard X-Forwarded-For header.

Are you interested in giving technical talks to share your knowledge or build up a reputation as an expert in your field? Here are a bunch of useful tips from Matthew Jones.

As a long-time fan of static website generators like Hugo and Jekyll, I have had this idea in my head that it should be easier to handle markdown files used by these services in ASP.NET. Well, it seems Rick Strahl had the same idea. Check out this great new piece of middleware which allow you to serve markdown files in your application easily.

Andrew Lock shows how you can use an IActionFilter in ASP.NET Core MVC to read the method parameters for an action method before it executes. He demonstrates two different approaches to this problem, depending on your requirements.

Mr Entity Framework (Jon Smith) writes about the GenericServices Nuget library, which makes it easier to build CRUD applications. He describes why this is useful and how it can save you development time.

Staying on the topic of Entity Framework, Eric shows how easy it is to add Entity Framework to an existing ASP.NET Core project.

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